It is with great sadness that we inform the McGill community of the passing of Dr. Anthony Dobell on Wednesday, June 17th, 2015 at the age of 88. Dr. Dobell was beloved by his patients, their families, his colleagues and the wider community, as a caring gentleman with extraordinary skill. He has left a wonderful legacy at McGill and its pediatric and adult teaching hospitals where he worked his entire career. A memorial service will be arranged later in the summer. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The Montreal Children’s Hospital — Cardiovascular Surgery Department.
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Two months ago I asked for your thoughts on the McGill employee experience, and your response was incredible. Nearly 1,300 people completed the My Workplace survey, and more than 400 took the time to share text comments as well, averaging about a half-page each. You had a lot to tell us, and I want to thank you for all of it – both positive and negative.
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The Rossy Cancer Network (RCN) is launching the brand new Quality Improvement Initiatives Fund (QI2) in August. The fund will focus on projects that will make an immediate impact on the delivery of care for patients in the network.
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The Jewish General Hospital is pleased to announce that Dr. Gerald Batist has been re-appointed Chair of the Department of Oncology for a third term. The Search and Selection Committee noted that the Department has “flourished under Dr. Batist’s tenure,” securing a national and international reputation for clinical care and for fundamental and translational research, concluding that “he is the best person to lead the Department of Oncology going forward.”
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More than $1.2 million in funding from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) was announced today for infrastructure to support 12 innovative research projects at McGill. Professor Nicole Li, from the Faculty of Medicine’s School of Communications Sciences and Disorders, is one of the McGill researchers who will benefit from this funding. Prof. Li’s team is developing computational models to treat voice afflictions.
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Researchers from McGill University and its hospital-affiliated research institutes have been awarded $91.5 million in grants in the latest round of funding by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR).”
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How do you get to Carnegie Hall? New research on the brain’s capacity to learn suggests there’s more to it than the adage that “practise makes perfect.” A music-training study by scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, at McGill University and colleagues in Germany found evidence to distinguish the parts of the brain that account for individual talent from the parts that are activated through training. ”
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The MUHC has conducted the first islet cell transplant in Quebec. The breakthrough was made at the Glen site of the MUHC after the complex process of isolating islet cells from a donor pancreas was achieved at the MUHC Human Islet Transplant Laboratory. The procedure, which does not require surgery and reduces hospital stays ten-fold, is a significant advancement in the treatment of type 1 diabetes, and marks the first step in what researchers hope will be the development of a regional network for this novel therapy.
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Since 2007, the Paediatric Chairs of Canada (PCC) has been giving annual awards recognizing paediatric leadership in Education, Research and Practice. Two members of the McGill Faculty of Medicine’s Department of Pediatrics have recently been announced as 2015 recipients. Dr. Ronald Gottesman has received the 2015 PCC Award for Leadership as a Clinician Educator, while Dr. Constantin Polychronakos has received the 2015 PCC Award for Leadership as a Clinician Investigator. Congratulations Dr. Gottesmand and Dr. Polychronakos!
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Hello! I’m Bill Huang, a current McGill medical student who just completed my first year of medical school. This blog will be about my experience in Kitigan Zibi, an Algonquin reserve, during the month of July.
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